Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Depree, Max

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Reagan, Ronald

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

30.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Mack, Connie

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas

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You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Korda, Michael